What splurge item have you bought that’s left you disappointed?

[Chloefairydust]

So decided to treat myself and buy myself a Venus embrace razor. I loved how glamorous it looked, loved that you can buy new heads for it and reuse the handle (less plastic waste). Just really wanted to love this item!

Anyway so I have a shower this morning with my Venus embrace…. I shave my legs, great result. Shave my toes, great result. Shave armpits, again great... And just when I’m really beginning to feel like a silky smooth Goddess in the shower… I try to shave my bikini area. OMG seriously wtf is wrong with this razor??? Something about the shape of the razor itself just makes it impossible to get a good result in the bikini area😳. I’m so disappointed.
I’m hoping the Venus razor inventor reads this thread and improves their product. Because I so wanted to love this item.

You would think spending more money on an item would get you a better product. But apparently not… So what luxury splurge item have you bought that’s left you disappointed??

Im going back a few years but a Phil and teds pushchair-the 3 wheeler double one
i saved and saved the £400 to buy it-it was fab-for the first 3 months
the front wheel fell off if I tried to push it over the kerb
the tyres kept going down,then the wheel rim exploded off-hitting my eldest
6 weeks with no pushchair while we waited for a replacement
the base of basket snapped-clean in half
the brackets holding the back seat onto the buggy snapped so I had to buy more
then the top seat just started sagging-to the point she couldn’t sit in it-they didn’t want to know when I complained
we got less than 7 months worth of use out of it,and I had to shell out for another one
i may as well have shoved 400 pound notes down the toilet and flushed

Both of you are killing me! 😂😂😂 We’ve ultimately decided our first will have to be an only child. We were entertaining the idea of giving him a sibling until we took a car trip with his cousins and got to experience first hand how frustrating it is to have to break up sibling arguments while driving and decided we would rather not. 🤣

Agree on second child. We were smug AF when DD was the perfect toddler who did literally everything she was told right away, NEVER tantrummed and hit all her milestones early. “What amazing parents we are” we thought “let’s do this again seeing as we are so good at it”.

Well didn’t DS not just only make us eat humble pie, he rammed the humble pie so far down our throats we are choking constantly.

Its a good job we love him because he’s a proper bastard who does NOTHING he is told, resisted all his milestones and has a tantrum about 15,819 times a day.

Serves us right I suppose.

@N1no it’s weird but you just do.

when I was pregnant with DC2 we just decided “well we won’t love them like we love DD and we have to square it with ourselves now” but then DS came along and it was instant love.

Also when you see your eldest meet then for the first time it’s just the most wonderful life affirming moment, I’m not normally the gushy kind but it was just perfect and we now can’t believe there was a time before he was here

Slimming world is a low fat diet and definitely not for someone who is diabetic. Not sure if you are type 1 or 2 but you want to lower your carb intake and decrease your injections. Just be careful not to go too low and not too sudden, especially if you don’t have a pump. The body only burns fat when there is no insulin and low glucose levels.
In Germany many type 1 are on vlc diet and only carb for sport but it’s a lifestyle you need to be happy with.

How much were the new ones ?

I had some made in a local shop which has since closed and they didn't hem them correctly or do the hound symmetrically. It was very unlike me to let this go and I regret it every time I close them!!

You could get them re-hemmed? It’s not my usual line of business but I wouldn’t charge more than £100 for hemming of normal width curtains with interlining and lining.

@N1no I’m worried that this might happen. Totally unbiased, obviously, but DD (13 months) is the best child ever. How can I adore the second one in the same way?

The love just stretches. It's like magic. DD2 is three years younger than DD1 and we thought something similar, and then DD2 arrived and we were like, of COURSE she's perfect - she's perfectly HER and that's EXACTLY what we needed!

@RedTiledRoof it came from Amazon and was really cheap. Bought it last year and am still wearing it now and it still looks and feels great. If you squint it looks a bit like the Hermés one that apple sell. 😄

Ah ffs, it won’t let me upload a photo, hang on…

@RedTiledRoof can you see it?

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet very much that. DC1 did what he was told and I was tutting at those other parents, unable to control their children. Surely you will just firmly tell them no, be consistent and that's that. Then DC2 was born. We did all the same things and as behaviour and compliance is concerned, hahahahahaha...help..

Am LOVING this thread, lots of things I've dreamed of & now finding out they are all crap has made my day! (Sorry you guys have wasted your money, though..)

Mine was probably prams.. (could you guess by the name?) Twin prams that last until the babies are less than three months old and cost HUNDREDS, donkey's years ago.. ouch.. kept trying different ones & selling them on for peanuts..

@Ericaequites :-)

@LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet !!! I hear you! DC1 was the easiest baby, the easiest toddler, and now as a teenager (so far!) he's been easy. When DC2 came along, I thought it would be a piece of cake again. How fucking wrong I was!! Mother Nature looked down, heard my smugness, and said, "I'll fucking show you". DC2 is 9 now. And it's only been in the past maybe 3/4yrs that she's got easier!!

I know I massively cringe at how judgmental I was when I saw other people’s kids misbehaving and we just had DD. She didn’t misbehave, she never got a stain on her clothe, she went to bed when told (didn’t sleep through for bloody ages but you can’t win them all) and she was just brilliant.

Now DS is here I wish he was like those kids I judged because none of them are as horrendous as he is! And poor DD just coasts along merrily in the background still being bloody perfect. I mean it when I say if he’d been the first we would have stuck to one child. I always joke to DD that DS is her fault because she was so good 😂

And to make matters worse DS looks like an actual cherub, and has an innocent little face, so people are tricked into thinking he’s sweet and angelic.

Why am I opressed because I shave? I love smooth skin. Please don’t try to shame me with ridiculous leftie feminist views.

It’s not just lefties. I’ve had conservatives try to tell me this too. Some people just have a lot of irrelevant options about how women choose to live their lives. Sure it’s history is probably/definitely rooted in misogynists bullshit. But that was years ago and what does that have to do with me? A lot of female styles, clothing, hair, traditions, lifestyles (whatever you name it!) is rooted in misogynist bullshit. But why the fuck does that mean I have to hopskip through life trying to avoid things that make me happy just because it’s got some thousand year old vague sexist background? If anything making women walk on eggshells, enveloping every single life decision and their entire identity as a person, trying to avoid anything that seems remotely sexist is pretty misogynist in my opinion. It gets very old. Fuck the male gaze! Let them look if they want! I just want to enjoy being me! Why do people have to complicate it so much! Just let women be free to be themselves for fucks sake!

I can - thank you! That’s exactly what I’m after. Off to Amazon I go.

Keep taking your meds love

What a fucking stupid comment.

I do agree. I know the removal of perfectly natural body hair is a nonsense. I often don’t bother because I’m lazy…but I do enjoy being smooth, soft and perfumed too because it feels lovely to me.

Give over with the teeth gnashing FireChild. Fair enough you’ve got your opinion but you’re coming across as overbearing, aggressive and overwrought with it.
Chill out.

just don't understand people that spend money putting weird metal/leather straps on Apple watches you're supposed to wear them for swimming or at least getting wet you look silly with a strap you can't get wet on a fitness watch spend your money swimming! amazing for your mind and body